Peggy Tonon is the Director for Student Affairs, Clinical Director, and a Clinical Supervisor. A graduate of Bates College and The University of Montana School of Law, she was a Deputy County Attorney for sixteen years, where she prosecuted everything from goats running at large to deliberate homicide before joining the faculty in 1990.
As a Clinical Supervisor, she supervises the three external prosecution clinics which represent city, county, and federal governments. As Director for Student Affairs, she is responsible for academic advising and student organizations.
She has been the recipient of the Robert and Pauline Poore Faculty Service Award and the Margery Hunter Brown Faculty Merit Award recognizing service to the law school community.
She is a member of the Western Montana Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She is also a member of the Clinical Section of the Association of American Law Schools and the Clinical Legal Education Association.
Her service to the Montana Bar includes membership
on the Commission on Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
and the Evidence Commission. She also serves on the
Board of Directors of the Montana Legal Services
Association.
Tonon resides in Hamilton, Montana, with her husband,
Warren Neyenhuis. When not following the organic
farming adventures of her daughter and son-in-law,
she enjoys gardening, cooking, knitting, cycling
and traveling to far flung locales.
PUBLICATION
Beauty and the Beast — Hybrid
Prosecution Externships in a Non-Urban Setting,
74 Miss. L.J. 1043 (2005). |
